On Friday 16 October 2009 04:20:45 pm Damjan Georgievski wrote: > > The fbcon is the Biggie!. But that is now some compiled into the kernel > > magic that I'm pretty much at a loss to deal with. I installed > > xf86-video-fbdev and the fbdev error is gone, but as others correctly > > said, that wasn't the problem. > > fbcon is the framebuffer console,i.e. a module that provides a console > over a framebuffer device (as opposed to the VGA console). It > shouldn't be an issue for anything X related. > > > The only thing I am 100% certain of at this point is there is a problem > > somewhere because the box worked great up until I did the update on 10/8 > > and I haven't seen kde since... > > > > I'm sure it's something simple that just needs to be fixed in the kernel > > or in one of the modules. But I am equally sure that it will take someone > > much smarter than I on the kernel or module at issue to do it :p > > Does you KDE work if you try to log in as a new clean user? > No, I can't even get X to start -- period. Not at me, not as root, not as a fresh user created with useradd, nothing. X is just completely broken on this box and I'm really at a loss as to how to fix it. I'm usually great with dealing with X issues. I've build it, mesa, drm from scratch before without issue. What is killing me is I don't understand how moving the module into the kernel (this KMS thing) changes or complicates that process so I'm just kind of spinning my wheels at this point :-( -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com
